 Oh Flo, this show is gonna be so great. Listen to this question. Can you go to fortune tellers, psychics? Can you do tarot cards? Can you get your horoscope even for fun? Uh oh. I don't know, Kathy. That kind of sounds like somebody that's mad at God and looking for him someplace else. Are Bible teachings outdated? I don't think so. I don't know. We'll see. Hi, and welcome to Sister to Sister. You have joined us today for really, really good questions, and I'm gonna read the first one because I don't know how you feel about this. We'll find out. Can there be a place for horoscopes, psychic readings, palm readings, tarot cards, even if it's for fun, in a believer's life? Ooh. I think the key there is believer. Okay. Because once God saves your soul and you believe in him, there are certain rules. Before you know the Lord, you know, wait till we convict you. My mom and I had bought tarot cards when I was kind of a preteen and we thought, this is cool, read horoscopes and that sort of thing, but I need to say this. Psalm 19 says the firmament declares the glory of God that he named all the stars, whether they're still growing now, whether they're burning out, whatever they're doing. And Job also mentions what the Pleiades, Ursa Major, he calls it the bear and Orion. So the stars do have names, but it's what we do with them. What did the wise men do? They followed the star to glorify the Lord because they said we saw his star in the east. So it's not that we tell our fortune, our future with it, because there were many kings in the Bible who consulted witchcraft, who consulted sorcerers, who tried to tell the future and it says, it aroused God's anger, second chronicles. It aroused God's anger because they sought mediums instead of seeking the Lord. So if you're a believer, you better think twice and look at the scriptures. Even if you're not a believer, you better think twice. This is bad, Juju. I just love that was such a solid, solid answer. I love it because astrology is the study of the stars and God created all of that. So the whole thing of it is, is why are you worshiping the creation instead of the creator? So anything that draws your attention as the source is a counterfeit because it was created by God. So if you are putting your trust and faith in something he created, when you have a problem, you go to the manufacturer of that item. You don't go outside and have a conversation with your car. You don't go, well, why are you squeaking? Why are you making this funny noise? You take it to a mechanic. You take it preferably. You rather take it to the dillar itself depending on what's going on with it. Jeremiah says to us that God is speaking in ear and he's saying, you're not like the other nations. This is detestable. Don't do that. Daniel lets us know that it's detestable when the king calls for Daniel to interpret even the wise men. And it was very common in that culture and it's still in some cultures. They call for what they call wise men and the magicians and all of that. And Daniel was like, even they were saying, oh, king, there's nobody in the land that can give you the understanding it is. But it was used. God used that because Daniel was on the scene. Daniel was able to introduce the king to God, the real God, the king of kings and the Lord of lords. So I think that we have to watch that we don't allow ourselves to be open to the counterfeit. The other thing, just real quick if I can, I think what people don't understand when you say something's for fun, I'm reading your palm, I'm doing this, you don't understand in the spirit realm the dynamic, what is behind it. And you were asking earlier about different cultures. And the thing of it is, is we don't teach and we don't even wanna hear about that. Why is it that I can go to another country and have mass deliverance because they are spiritually alert and aware. Here, I gotta have a whole conversation with you that it is demonic. Tell, and then I gotta go back and forth with you whether the demons are real or do they have authority. By the time we're done, I'm too tired to do any deliverance with you. But I think it's very demonic. Is it fun? I would say do not dance with the devil at all for psychic readings, anything crazy demonic. I mean, the scripture is so clear. Look, do you see it as that though, Amy? That's the thing. When you say fun, it's like, I can remember going to Catholic school and we would have fairs, you know? And we would have the booths where you'd go in and somebody pretend to reach your palm. So, you know. But it opens up the door to the devil. We have to be very clear. The two scriptures real quick, Deuteronomy. Anyone who practices divinations, tells fortunes, interprets omens, or a sorcerer, or a charmer, or a medium, or a necromancer, or one who inquires of the dead for whoever does these things is an abomination to the Lord, New Testament, Galatians, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, and the list goes on. I warned you, those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God. That is not the truth. There is a false spirit behind it. I mean, people, it could like literally turn the trajectory of your life by putting your faith or belief in something that is not true. So, I would steer clear if you're a believer of anything, witchcrafty, sorcery, divination, psychic reading of that kind of story. But see, when you have people who have done it and then they've had results, and they've had people, you know, I went somewhere and somebody read seashells and what they said came to pass. I went somewhere and I called a psychic and she really did, you know. It's having that understanding that I have respect for anybody that operates in the spirit realm. The disarmament of what spirit or they're dealing with is what needs to kick in. What do you tell your kids? I was gonna say, even the Ouija boards, like I warned my girls, like when you go to sleepovers and stuff like that, do not mess with that. Yeah, oh, it's a fun board game, buh-buh. That opens yourself up to spiritual darkness. And we know that we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against spiritual darkness, evil spirit. So I have warned them from young ages, you do not mess with spiritual, because you know what, you know, it's not fake. There are real... That's right, because I said it's fake, but some is real. It is real. It's almost a counterfeit. Good question. You wrote this. This is a hard question. You wrote this, but this is a really hard question, too. So I'm going to flow, and it says, are there any biblical teachings that you think are old or outdated? I think it's impossible for the Bible to be outdated, because it was inspired by God. It was written a four-time for our learning. Now, hear me and hear me well. Is it important? Does the presentation of it change and matter? Absolutely, yes. For example, are there still adulterers in the world? Absolutely. In biblical times, when you read what happened, a mix of concoction, and if something happened in your legs, well, blah, blah, blah, blah, people were stoned, this and that. So now we have come into that dispensation of grace. People aren't dropping dead behind things, but there is a spiritual death that comes if you choose willing to operate in the level that defies and rebels against the will and the word of God. So is it outdated? Absolutely not. How do we apply it to the day? How do I present it? What else, well, it's another example of that. Let's look at the book of Acts. Let's follow the apostles. When Paul said, I should be all things to all men. He's not, you know, when he ministered to the Hebrews, he understood how to articulate, how to be an orator to those that were in that faith that understood that culture. Then you take him over to the Greeks who were philosophers and then he knew how to minister to them. Same gospel, different presentation. What do you girls have? I think there's a big one too. I agree, Flo, awesome, awesome presentation of what you said. I think there's a big one and I'm gonna focus on teaching. I think the Bible, God is the same yesterday, today and forever, the Bible is true. We don't understand it all, it's how it's interpreted that leads people sometimes astray or causes rituals or certain things happen. And the one is, can women teach men? Right, right. That's good, that's a good example. You know, you grow up with that and you see mostly male pastors and male preacher and so here you are, we got a couple of preachers right here. And it was the interpretation, whatever was going on in the Corinthian church in the Ephesians church, worshipping the goddess Diana, whatever else history says they were doing, Paul said it. But he said it in a way that people now were interpreting it that women can't be preachers. So is the Bible wrong? No, but the teaching, the methods, the things that people use to say this is the Bible sometimes lead people astray. Excellent, excellent, excellent. Women should keep kept silent in the church. Cover your heads, I mean there's things. And he says, I think. Go back to the culture, go back to the church, go back to the situation, be in the room and understand what you're talking about. Why would God want half of his population to be silent on the earth and not declaring and preaching the gospel? Actually, the opposite is true, the very resurrection of Christ was our first female evangelist. She was the first one to see him, the first one to go out and explain that he has risen and the first one to take it back to the people. So I do think it's important that you don't just take something, pie out of the sky and build an entire doctrine and theology around it. When you don't have the right context, the right culture, scripture interprets scripture. So make sure you really study to show yourself approved before you give those strong opinions on what's outdated. He said, I poured my spirit on all flesh and there's neither male or female or hick-ice words. Someone wrote that question to us because you're obviously hearing that from friends or family members, I hear it. It's old fashioned, men wrote it. And here's what I say, read it, open it. The Holy Spirit himself reveals to the people the truth. So I'm gonna go to this last question because it's really good. And you wrote this too. And it says, how important is regular church attendance? And I'm gonna go to my pastor on that. Well, I mean, I love this because actually when you think about it, it even answers the other two questions we just talked about. We don't follow the horoscope, we follow the word of God and we follow the teachings of the church. We get with other believers. We are a body of Christ. And Paul warns us, listen, as the days are coming and the end times are coming, you're to gather together more and more, those planted in the house of the Lord will flourish in the courts of our God. There's something that happens that you don't just get online only. There is a face to face. There is a being present. There is a being the hands and feet. There is walking with somebody, discipling somebody, helping somebody, praying for somebody. I love the scripture too where Jesus is going to the synagogue as was his custom. It was custom for him to attend the synagogue on a weekly basis and to learn and to sit and to grow. And I mean, Jesus did it, we do it even more. King David did it. Yes. What do you have for me? I think it's of the utmost importance. I think it's a command, but beyond being a command, I think it's a blessing. It's a gift and there's so much scripture that supports that. You know, it says praise God in his sanctuary, let us not forsake the meeting together. And for where two or three are gathered in his name, there am I in their midst. And it is a gift. I mean, it's part of my testimony. When we first moved to Connecticut, we didn't know anybody there. And we found a church, it was a church plant and we got plugged in there and that became our family. We didn't know anybody, we had no family. That became our church family. And that's, you know, that was God's plan for that. You know, it was our answer to prayer there. And that's how God envisioned it, that that's your family, people come around you. People helped us in our time of need. And we plugged in there, we served there. And that's part of a growing relationship, not only with the church body, but my relationship with the Lord flourished through that relationship with the local body. So it's of the utmost importance. What do you have? Flo, Roxy, how important is church attendance? Yeah, well, Jesus said, go and make disciples. As the sister said, how do you become a disciple if you're not learning from somebody? If you're not with somebody, there's accountability, there's learning, there's growth. And it does say don't forsake the assembling of yourselves. And it also says, he who isolates himself, seeks his own desire and goes against all sound wisdom. Don't isolate yourself. It's easy to do, especially after all the pandemics and the sickness and the illnesses and the fear to go out, don't isolate yourself. Make wise choices, but don't isolate. I think really this question is so good, but I, in my heart, am thinking, I don't want to judge you if you're not attending on a regular basis. I don't want to sit here and say, well, I'm a better Christian, God loves me more. We're not saying that at all. Many of you, like Roxy Ann said, you still have some fear of gathering in the building. But guess what? It's the house of God and there are angels all around and you will be safe and filled with the love of Jesus Christ. So get to church and stay right there. We'll be right back. ["Gibber Gathering"] Okay, okay, welcome back, girls. Stop gibber gathering. It's so fun, yeah, so fun. But the next two questions we have for you. This one is almost the most important to me. So I'm going to flow for this one. And it's really simple because I know you asked us this. Is it okay to be mad at God? Well, all I can say, if it's not, then I'm shh. Shhh. Shhh. Shhh. Shhh. You're in trouble. Yeah. I'd have to say, yes, it's not a place that you want to be, but you know, God is, he's able to handle it. And who do you think you're fooling? Like, you know, things have gone on in my life and you know, Corey, you walk around and you're like, hallelujah, praise the Lord. Yes, God is good all the time, blah, blah, blah. You know, and in the meantime, inside your heart, you're going, why didn't you do that, how come, you know what? And it's, do you really think God doesn't know that? I mean, who are you fooling? So the God that I serve has big shoulders. He created me. He knows my most inward parts. That's part of my prayer. So he knows when flow is angry. So be, you know, be angry and sin not, what's the sin? First of all, quit trying to hide it from God. Like that fig leaf worshiping doesn't work. Ask Adam and Eve, okay? There they were in the garden. Neck it, did something they weren't supposed to do and they grabbed some fig leaves and wrap it around themselves. Did you really think you were going to fool God? You know, who told you you were naked? So who told you that you're not mad with me? Who told you you're not angry? When I pray prayers of repentance and I ask for forgiveness, I ask God to forgive me for being angry at him, for not obeying him, for being disappointed with him. Cause it interferes with my everyday walk. Can you be angry with God? You know, God, absolutely you can. Is it a place you want to stay? No, how do I shift from that, Kathy? That is one of the times that I really do have to look up the word on whatever it is I'm angry with God about and get an understanding. Do you have any scripture on this? You're my scripture girl. I got a girl. I got a lady that I went to talk to after she, you've done flour, scripture. I do have scriptures. I mean, you could quote Job and you could quote Jeremiah who you know, we're very disturbed with God. But I'm going to my girl, Martha. You know, how many times- Martha, Martha, Martha, Martha. Yeah, I know. She was good though. You know, she had food on the table for him. Take care of her. She was hospitality. Mary was having fun with Jesus, you know. But you know, she said, and we say this with our anger, don't you care God? Yes. When we're angry with him, we might not say I'm angry, but we'll say like Martha said, Jesus, don't you care that I'm serving by myself? Do something about it. That's right. And what did he do? Oh, Martha, you're just so worried about many things. Just come here and rest in me. You know, her gift was hospitality. I'm sure Martha's house, we'd all want to be there. Hospitality, taking care of everyone. And yet the Lord taught her a lesson even in her, she was frustrated with the king of kings and the Lord of lords. So if she can be, and she was one of Jesus's best friends, her and Lazarus, her brother and Mary. So I went to my girl, Martha. That's so good. And there's other examples too. And I think there's examples of how there are people with their anger and they did sin. Like for example, the Israelites, their anger turned into sin. But then there's, you know, Moses or the psalmist where they express their anger to God and it brought them closer to the Lord. So I think those are good examples in the Bible where God is, you know, allowing us to express that anger to him. And then he, like Martha draws us closer to him. So anger is not a logical emotion. It's an emotion. The heart is deceitful above all things. And the Lord loves us. He draws us in and we have to allow him to do that. And he allows us to express that. I'm wondering as we're talking, cause I'm really thinking about, you know, things that I've walked through. Can we be mad and angry but not at God but at the situation, at how I'm feeling about it. Because it's just so tattooed that he, he's kind and gracious and good. Like it's, I can't, I don't, can't be mad at him, but yet I've had loss. Why are you laughing? I'm sorry. Because it's the tattoo. No. I love her spirituality and I know that you're serious, but with all due respect. God is not something in the cosmos. He is real and he is my dad. And just like with my natural father, I was pissed when my dad would do certain things. And my thing with God is I'm dealing with something right here and I know you can change it. Why aren't you changing it? So then I do, you all don't have to agree. I'm just being honest. I'm not trying to give the right answer. I'm giving an honest answer. I get angry and I have been angry and mad at God. What happens because of that, then there is that being divinely ruined, being broken because I've gotten angry with God and was able to really pour out my heart, call on me and I will answer. He was able to reveal himself to me in another way. And then from that point I was able to see, okay God, it wasn't you, it's me or it's the circumstance or the situation. But I have been with God. She's being honest too. She's being honest too about where she is with it. Well, that's what I'm saying. You know what I mean. So different personalities. I'm gonna end this with the last question. I'm gonna go to Corey and I just want you to tell me one answer. What is the point of being a Christian, Corey? The son of man came not to be served, but to serve. And so the point of being a Christian is to serve others, not ourselves, but to serve others. And in doing so, we are blessed. That's the irony of it. Is that when we serve others, we get the blessing out of that. Do you have a scripture for me on that one? Oh, let me look, let me look. The point, I bet you do. Yeah, the thief comes to still kill and destroy John 1010. But Jesus came to give life and life more abundantly. And I want that abundant life, even in sorrow and despair. That's right. Well, when I looked at this question and said what is the point of being a Christian, I simply felt in my heart and it's coming out of my mouth. It's not a point, it is, I am. There's no point to it, it's just I am. And he loves me so much. This little speck of Kathy on the earth that he cares desperately about me. So the point is I am, just period, I am. God said I am, but I say back to him, I am. We'll be right back to wrap this up. So we have the perfect scripture to end with today. And I want you to turn to the book of Psalms if you're able to get it on your phone or you got time to go and get the hardback Bible. Do that. Let's look in Psalms 100 verses two through three. Serve the Lord with gladness. Come before him with presence and singing. Know that the Lord, he is God. It is he who has made us and not we ourselves. We are his people and the sheep of his pastor. You know, there's something about how you come to God, how you confront God, whether it is honesty, God, I'm angry, God, I'm upset or whether it is like our Amy who was sharing, listen, I get angry but there's something tattooed in my brain about the joy of loving the Lord. We're all gifted, we're all different. And you know, there's something about you being his sheep. Sheep are unique, but sheep need lead. There's something about being in his presence. You know, David mastered that. David on the backside, you know, out there in the field. Not only was he tending to the sheep, he would strum, I would imagine what we would call a guitar today. He's out there playing his music. He's singing praises to the most high God. And I just kind of think that it comforted the sheep. And in the meantime, it was cultivating David's soul. And as it cultivated David's soul, it bought him into a more intimate relationship with his God. So that when he was confronted with the enemy or when the enemy tried to confront the things and the people of God, David was in a place to take that adversary on. He killed the lion, he killed the bear. And because of worship, because of that place of intimacy, he was able to take out Goliath. Not just numb him with the stone, but he then took the sword and beheaded Goliath. Our God is an awesome God. He's powerful. Practice this week, getting into his presence and let him equip you with what you need to advance the kingdom of God. And I'm gonna equip you with one more scripture. And it goes like this. As iron sharpens iron. So does the countenance of a man or a woman or a sister and we do sharpen each other. You see family being with Godly people makes me a much better Kathy.